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- In the 1940's, the FCC assigned TV's channel 1 to mobile services (like two-way radios in taxi-cabs) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1. -AN
- The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because, when it was built, engineers forgot take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. -AN
- Our brains take in more information in one day than the largest computer does in years. -DS
- In 1945, when the ball-point first came out, it was such a novelty that one pen sold for $12.50. -KW
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Last modified: 22 Aug 1998